{"id":1584,"date":"2013-06-29T06:41:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2013-08-05T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:23:34","slug":"162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/162\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Yamato<\/em> Models by Bandai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-880 alt=\"0712icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-content\/uploads\/0712icon.JPG\" width=\"216\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"cosmo-teaser\">Part 8: Finishing Touches<br \/>\n<em>Final Yamato<\/em> gave Bandai and its <em>Yamato<\/em> customers one last spin on the dance floor. Of the kits that concluded a very successful ten years, only one was new, but now that Bandai had become an industry leader, there was plenty more to come.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><!--noteaser--><\/p>\n<h2>Part 8: Finishing Touches<\/h2>\n<p><em>Final Yamato<\/em>&#8216;s premiere in March 1983 gave Bandai and its <em>Yamato<\/em> customers one last spin on the dance floor. Of the kits that concluded a very successful ten years, only one was completely new but model builders who had come to venerate Bandai&#8217;s quality had many, many other treasures in store now that this company was positioned as an industry leader for decades to come.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px; clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/162\/Kit51.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>1\/500 Space Battleship <em>Yamato<\/em> &#8220;Cosmic Model&#8221; (March 1983)<\/h3>\n<p>A reissue of the 1978 &#8220;Cosmic Model&#8221; in slightly revised packaging. Later reissues would eliminate the prepainted lower hull.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px; clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug09\/Kit53.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>1\/1000 Space Battleship <em>Yamato<\/em> (March 1983)<\/h3>\n<p>Similar in size to the &#8220;gold version&#8221; <em>Yamato<\/em>, this is essentially a scaled-down version of the more accurate kits that followed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px; clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/162\/Kit54.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Cosmo Zero (March 1983)<\/h3>\n<p>A reissue of the 1977 Cosmo Zero in new packaging to tie in with <em>Final Yamato<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px; clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/aug09\/Kit55.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>1\/700 Space Battleship <em>Yamato<\/em> (March 1983)<\/h3>\n<p>A reissue of the 1980 kit, also eliminating the internal parts of the 1\/700 &#8220;Mechanic Model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/163\">Continue to part 9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandising-final-yamato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9612,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/9612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}